• Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός...
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  • "Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II"...
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  • expressing a general truth or aphorism Gnomic poetry, a poetry genre Gnomic will, an Eastern Orthodox theological concept Gnome (disambiguation) Gnomonic projection...
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    memorably arranged; comparable with the Old English sayings, Gnomic poetry, and Old Norse poetry of wisdom and learning. The Old English Rune Poem as recorded...
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  • iambs and appears to have specialized in gnomic poetry like his likely contemporary Phocylides. Little of his poetry survives, preserved in brief quotations...
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    approximately the sixth century BC. The work attributed to him consists of gnomic poetry quite typical of the time, featuring ethical maxims and practical advice...
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  • especially a philosophical maxim Maxims (Old English poems), examples of gnomic poetry Maximes (1665–78) of François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) Mary Maxim...
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    called subhāṣita, ("well said") which can be classified as gnomic poetry and didactic poetry. These are mainly poems which contain some wise saying, aphoristic...
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  • Dinogat (Dinogad's Smock). Much of the nature poetry, gnomic poetry, prophetic poetry, and religious poetry in the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red...
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    possessing, in varying degree, the prosodic and rhetoric qualities of gnomic poetry." Within the chapter-structure, the couplets acquire their structural...
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